get HTML element by attribute value in php

Question

I need to extract some data from a webpage with php. The part that I\'m interested in is structured similarly to this:

Answer 1

use DOMXPath and queries:

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->Load('yourFile.html');

$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);

$fruits = $xpath->query("//a[@target='fruit']");
foreach($fruits as $fruit) {
    // ...
}

$animals = $xpath->query("//a[@target='animal']");
foreach($animals as $animal) {
    // ...
}

See this demo.